One Coward Professor Called Humphrey
Nwosu
By
Ndiameeh Babrik
Ndiame_2005@yahoo.co.uk
It took him 15 long agonizing years for
him to claim to release the result of the June12 1993 election. But he
left us the apostles of June 12 more traumatized and severely annoyed.
Not only did he try to distort facts but with impunity knowing that
his master as at then and now will still pay him any way.
But this distortion of facts is too much
to bear and the reaction from the general public is unprecedented.
What are we talking about here?
Professor Humphrey Nwosu, chairman of
the defunct NEC is making effort to tell whoever cares to listen that
General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida did not annul the June 12 1993
election rather it was General Sani Abacha, Murtala Nyako, Aliyu
Mohammed and other that annulled it. To go straight to the point
Babangida in one of the interviews he granted the press acknowledged
that he only cancelled the election and that he did not annul it.
There was that debate last year trying to know the difference between
cancelling and annulment. Ordinarily that disclosure by General
Babangida that he only cancelled the election and not annulment would
have put to rest this debate but for the benefit of those who may not
have seen that interview, let us look at Babangida’s antecedence to
confirm that he actually masterminded and annulled the June 12 1993
election and nobody else.
IBB as he is fondly called by his
admirers has always said and confirmed that not only was he in power
and Government but that he was in charge and that he was the military
president and commander in chief of the armed forces of Nigeria and he
acted it out practically in all his eight years of military adventure
as he put himself.
All the acts and actions Babangida took
prior to June 12 1993 pointed to the fact that he wanted to perpetuate
himself in power till he dies in power or be chased out like Idi Amin
of Uganda.
The first case was the IMF debate of
1985. He had assembled some of the best brains in the country then
such as Professor Aluko, Professor Ayagi and many others who advised
him against implementing the IMF conditions but Babangida unilaterally
implemented the IMF conditions even without recourse to his AFRC as he
styled it. Babangida was so dictatorial that he sacks his Military
chiefs and members of the Armed Forces Ruling Council at his whims and
caprices.
The first to test Babangida’s
dictatorial bitter pill was a gentleman and a pure breed Officer
Commodore Ubitu Ukiwe who was suppose to be Babangida’s 2nd
in command as the chief of General Staff. The Commodore incurred
General Babangida’s wrath when he publically said that Babangida
unilaterally dragged Nigeria into OIC organization of Islamic
conference without recourse to the AFRC which Babangida’s boy
Brig-General John Shagaya who was minister of Internal Affairs even
confirmed. On that excuse alone Babangida fired Ukiwe from the AFRC
and retired him prematurely from the Navy. General Babangida never
liked working with intelligent officers and therefore he surrounded
himself with the Abachas, Aikhomus, Nyakos and Gambo Jimetas of
Nigeria and the Nigerian state paid for it dearly and is paying for
that misrule up till now. As a maximum Military head of State as he
was then, Babangida was the state and the state was Babangida and
Maryam and had the power to fire and hire members of the armed forces
ruling council and military and police service chiefs. What he dreamt
of then becomes a law in Nigeria and that was why he changed the
nomenclature of everything under the sun in Nigeria. While under
military rule we were used to head of State he said he was military
president. We were used to chief of staff supreme headquarters he said
his own was chief of General staff. Well we were used to supreme
military council, he said his own was armed forces ruling council. In
fact in the course of his eight years of all forms of experimenting
with Nigeria he changed the name of his AFRC to PRC and NSDC to suit
his tastes at any particular time. He distorted military ranks and
created fictitious ranks for his cronies.
General Babangida did not spare the
civil service from his dictatorial experimentation, he completely
changed the nomenclature of the civil service and created the title
Director General and in fact at one time he called his ministers
secretary akin to the British system. I am bothering you readers with
all the above explanation to let you know that General babangida
squarely annulled the June 12 election and nobody else as is being
portrayed by Professor Humphrey Nwosu .
To confirm that General Babangida was
the alpha and the omega of his military regime, on two occasions he
dissolved the AFRC and re-constituted into PRC at one time and NSDC at
another and he equally converted his chief of General staff into a
civilian vice President in his anticipation of transforming himself
into civilian president. It was the same Babangida who promised to
hand over to civilians in 1990 which he failed to do but shifted it to
1992 which he yet again failed to honor until the June 12 1993 nemesis
caught up with him and he was eventually forced out by civilians led
by chief MKO Abiola.
It was Babangida who squarely annulled
June 12 election to perpetuate himself in power. He was the principal
player, the referee and in fact everything as far as June 12 1993 was
concerned.
He was banning and unbanning politicians
at his whims and caprices. All Babangida’s acts and actions while he
was military head of state pointed to the fact that he wanted and
wished to be head of state for life. Humphrey Nwosu must therefore
apologize to Nigerians and the International community for criminal
misrepresentation and perjury. Babangida annulled June 12 1993
election and is criminally liable whether now or in the near future or
even in death. Surely a Daniel will come to judgment one day and those
who looted Nigeria will be brought to justice
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